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IN THE YEARS AGONE
Boy stabbed in 1939 while playing in cornfield
Aug. 9,1889
• Tuesday last being Seaforth's Civic Holiday most of
the business places in town were closed and many
of the inhabitants took advantage of the occasion to
go elsewhere. Only a few were left as a home guard,
and had the town been invaded by outside forces
an ignominious capitulation would almost cer-
tainly have been the result. While 460 left by train,
all who could procure vehicles went to Bayfield and
other points of interest.
• A baseball match was played on the Recreation grounds
in this town on Wednesday last between the clubs of
Brussels and Exeter. The match was for the champion-
ship of Huron and a money stake of $100. It elicited a
great deal of interest in the towns from which the
respective clubs came.
■ Mr. Thomas Dobbs of McKillop, delivered the first
new wheat at Ogilvies mill on Thursday of last week. It
was of fair sample and went a trifle over sixty pounds
to the bushel. Since then there have been several
small lots brought in.
• Harvesting operations are now well advanced. The
weather has been most favorable and the crops are
being housed in excellent condition. The fall wheat, on
account of the rust, is small and of inferior sample, but
the yield will be fully equal to last year.
Aug. 14, 1914
■ Mr. T.W. Sloan of Hullett, near Blyth, had the
framework of a large new barn raised last week.
The frame went together in good shape under the
supervision of Mr. Lorne Scimgeour, who has the
work in charge. After the frame was up, a tug-of-
war was pulled off by teams captained by N.A. Tay-
lor and Jason Watson, fifteen men a side, the for-
mer winning.
• A very distressing and fatal accident occurred at
No. 6 warehouse here on Tuesday evening last,
when Clara Jane, the 10 -year-old daughter of Mr.
John Muir, G.T.R. Section Foreman, was smothered
to death in a bin of wheat. It appears the little girl
with some companions had been playing about a
car of wheat being unloaded, and had been ordered
away by the men in charge for fear they might meet
with some accident. Instead of going away, how-
ever, they unnoticed by anyone, slipped into the
warehouse and were playing in one of the large
wheat bins when a spout was opened below to draw
off some wheat.
• Now that the excitement incidental to the great
gathering held in Seaforth last week, known as the
Seaforth Old Boys' Reunion and Provincial Fire-
men's Tournament, has subsided, a more accurate
view of the great undertaking can be had. It was a
great undertaking for a town the size of Seaforth
and that it has proved successful financially and
every other way shows all the more clearly the care
and skill that must have been exercised by those
having the enterprise in charge.
• A severe hail storm passed over the northern part of
McKillop, Sunday forenoon last, doing considerable
damage to the crops. On Sunday afternoon a very
severe windstorm passed over the country about
Cromarty, in Hibbert.
• Mrs. James Lawrence of McKillop, has shown us
three eggs which for size and weight break the egg
record. These eggs weighed eleven and three quar-
ter ounces and one measured five and three quar-
ter inches the one way and six and three quarter
inches the other.
Aug. 11, 1939
• Police are checking the story told by 9 -year-old
Harold Knight of Seaforth, that he was attacked by a
transient and stabbed in the arm while in play in a
corn field at the read of his home Thursday. Young
Knight was playing hide-and-seek in the field with
a number of other boys, including his cousin,
Bobby Knight, aged 8. His story is that a man with
scissors in his hand and his face covered, rose from
the corn and stabbed at him, inflicting a wound on
his arm with necessitated medical attention. The
man then disappeared in the corn.
• One of the finest examples of fall wheat ever grown
in this district was brought into the Expositor office
on Thursday evening of last week. It was grown on
the farm of Mr. Foster Ingram, first concession of
Hay Township, and the grains were not only uni-
formly large and plump, but were of excellent col-
our. It was of the Dawson variety and tested 62.5 lbs
to the bushel.
Aug. 13,1964
• Tenders will close Monday for the construction of a
new office and egg grading plant for United Dairy and
Poultry Co-operative. The new plant, with equipment,
will cost $75,000, will be located on South Main
Street, south of Oke Street, on property purchased
from Wright and Leyburn.
• Thirty-five Staffa Institute members and friends traveled
by bus to Stratford Thursday evening to attend the
Shakespearean play, "King Lear," and the operetta, "The
Yeoman of the Guard."
• Provision for auxiliary police to be available in time of
emergency and as a relief pool or trained personnel for
the local force was made Monday night.
• Despite reservations by Councillors Flannery and Turn-
bull, council adopted a bylaw creating an emergency
measures organization for the town.
Aug. 9,1989
• The Seaforth Junior Farmers Blood Donor Clinic, held
Thurdday night at the Seaforth and Distrcit Commu-
nity Centre, once again brought inmore units of blood
than anticipated. Organizers say there was a steady
stream of donors from the time the clinic opened
until it closed, and added that in the last two hours it
was extremely busy.
• It may not be thanksgiving, but three farming fami-
lies in McKillop Township are thankful these days
for compassionate and helpful neighbours. Les,
Lorne and Ken Glanville, and their respective fami-
lies, were shown a great gift of friendship last week,
when their neighbours joined forces to harvest
their wheat, while they grieved over the death of
their father/grandfather.
• Ladies of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club held a
tournament among members of their club on Mon-
day afternoon while bowling for the McLean
Trophy.